Algoma Sault

At 24,640 gross tons, Algoma Sault is the 23,293rd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 4.1 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,314th by tonnage — larger than 33% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory, of which Algoma Sault is the 14th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 34 bulk carriers flying the Canada flag, of which none is larger than Algoma Sault.

Algoma Sault was built in 2018, making it 8 years old. It is one of 1,246 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 18,960 GT; within it this ship is the 534th largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

At 225.0 m overall, Algoma Sault is 35.0 m longer than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9619282 this registry holds 70 other vessels, whose median build year is 2013 and which range from 2010 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2018.

Its IMO number, 9619282, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — = 162 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.